“He plugged into one of my amps. Me, Steve and John Petrucci were just stunned”: Joe Satriani and Steve Vai on what happened when Billy Gibbons and Brian May played through their rigs

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that playing through, say, Eddie Van Halen’s rig doesn’t magically turn your playing style into Van Halen’s, as Billy Corgan once learned.

Now, as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai prepare to cement their half-century bond with a collaborative album, The Sea of Emotion, they look back on their years touring together with the G3 project – including the time Billy Gibbons and Brian May plugged into Satch’s amp.